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Water heater replacement, tankless care and upstairs leak prevention for two-story homes in The Paseos, Summerlin
Active Plumbing has provided pipe & fixture services to The Paseos, Las Vegas since 1991. License #0047021. Fully insured.
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Plumbing for The Paseos, a 2000s Summerlin village in ZIP 89138. Original water heaters, expansion tanks and pressure regulators at end of life, tankless descaling, upstairs supply failures and trail-side irrigation leaks.
The Paseos is a Summerlin village built largely through the 2000s on the western side of the community, reached from Far Hills Avenue at the western end of Summerlin Parkway. Desert Moon Road, Antelope Ridge Drive, Fox Hill Drive and Sky Vista Drive run through it past Paseos Park, Fox Hill Park and Vassiliadis Elementary, and it adjoins The Vistas and Stonebridge. Homes are slab-on-grade, mostly two-story, with copper or PEX supply, so there is no galvanized, cast iron or polybutylene here and no repipe work in the sense older parts of the valley need it. What the village does have is a whole generation of equipment reaching end of life at roughly the same time, because it was built in a compressed period.
Pipe and fixture services in The Paseos cover fixture installation and repair, remodel plumbing, backflow testing, and new construction and ADU plumbing. What shapes this work in The Paseos is the village's compressed build window in the 2000s, which means a full generation of original fixtures, mixing valves, angle stops, and recirculation pumps arriving at end of life at roughly the same time. Add water hardness of about 280 parts per million and a master association with active design review, and several routine jobs here require steps that the same work in a newer or older neighborhood would not.
Fixture repair in The Paseos frequently traces back to scale rather than a worn part. At about 280 parts per million, valley water deposits calcium through the narrow passages of shower mixing valves and faucet cartridges over twenty years of use. A cartridge that swings between hot and cold or a faucet that barely flows is often scaled rather than mechanically failed. Cleaning or replacing the cartridge resolves it, but skipping a pressure check and aerator inspection at the same visit leaves the underlying cause unaddressed.
Bathroom or kitchen remodel plumbing in The Paseos requires a building permit through the City of Las Vegas and, separately, design review approval from the master association and the applicable village sub-association for anything visible on the exterior. Relocating a tankless unit to an exterior wall, adding a side-yard softener loop connection, or changing an exterior hose bibb location can each trigger review. Interior rough-in does not require association approval, but confirming the boundary before scheduling avoids a stop-work situation mid-remodel.
Many of the larger floor plans in The Paseos were built with recirculation pumps to deliver hot water quickly to upstairs bathrooms. Those pumps are now at or near end of life, and a pump that has failed silently often shows up as a complaint about long wait times for hot water upstairs rather than as an obvious equipment failure. Fixture repair calls in two-story homes here should include checking whether a recirculation pump is present and whether it is still operating.
Adding a casita or ADU in The Paseos means tying into an existing sewer lateral and water service, and the underground run crosses caliche hardpan. Caliche is hard to trench through and difficult to bed pipe into evenly, which makes the excavation portion of new construction plumbing slower and more expensive than the linear footage alone suggests. The length of the run from the main house to the new unit and the depth of the existing lateral both affect what the work involves before a permit is even pulled.
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Original angle stops in Paseos homes are now twenty-plus years old and often have not been turned since installation. When a plumber shuts one off to replace a faucet or toilet, the valve may not fully close or may begin weeping afterward. What starts as a straightforward fixture swap can require replacing the shutoff as well. Confirming valve condition before starting fixture work avoids an unplanned water shutoff to the whole house mid-job.
Residential pressure vacuum breakers on irrigation lines in The Paseos sit unused through winter and are tested annually by the Las Vegas Valley Water District's backflow program. A body cracked by a cold night or a test cock that has seized after months without use can fail the annual test. Repair and retest must be completed before the assembly is returned to service, and scheduling before the watering season starts avoids a gap in irrigation.
Paseos homes are slab-on-grade, and a warm spot on a ground-floor tile or an unexplained rise in water usage is often the first sign of an under-slab supply line failure. In a two-story home, the ground floor sits directly on the slab, so detection work must distinguish between a slab leak and a leak from an upstairs fixture or connector draining down through the structure before it becomes visible.
Installing a tankless water heater on an exterior wall or placing a water treatment system on a side yard in The Paseos can require both a City of Las Vegas building permit and separate design review approval from the Summerlin master association and the village sub-association. These run on different timelines and neither waives the other. Equipment mounted before association approval may need to be relocated, which adds cost to what should be a straightforward installation.
Private lot irrigation in The Paseos often runs close to the trail corridors and common landscape that give the village its name. A leak near that boundary can be difficult to attribute without tracing the line, and work begun on what appears to be a private system may turn out to involve the association's irrigation. Establishing which system is leaking before excavating avoids a dispute over who authorizes and pays for the repair.
What we offer in The Paseos
When the supply pipe in a home is failing everywhere at once, spot repairs only buy time. Active Plumbing replaces the water lines in Las Vegas Valley homes from the main shutoff to every fixture, using PEX or copper installed to the local code. We confirm what pipe you have on site, handle the permit, and give you a written price before work starts.
Learn more →Fixtures are the parts of your plumbing you use every day, and in the valley's very hard water they wear out sooner than people expect. Active Plumbing repairs and replaces faucets, toilets, shower valves, sinks, garbage disposals and appliance connections, and our trucks carry common repair parts so many jobs finish in one visit. You get a written price before work starts.
Learn more →A remodel is the one time the walls and floor are open, so it is the right time to get the plumbing behind them right. Active Plumbing plans and installs new drain, vent and supply lines, works through rough-in inspection with the building department for your address, and sets the finished fixtures. You get a written price before work starts.
Learn more →A backflow assembly keeps water from your irrigation system or building from flowing back into the public supply. In the Las Vegas Valley these assemblies must be tested by a certified tester at installation, after repair or relocation, and at least once a year. Active Plumbing handles the test, the repair and the replacement, with a written price before work starts.
Learn more →A new building or accessory unit gets its plumbing in stages, and each stage has to land at the right point in the schedule. Active Plumbing handles the underground, the rough-in and the trim for new homes, casitas and ADUs across the Las Vegas Valley. You get a written price before work starts, and we work alongside your builder or general contractor.
Learn more →We confirm the supply material, check pressure and leak history, and map how lines can be routed through the house.
You get a written price covering PEX or copper and wall openings, and we file the permit with the building department for your address.
New lines run from the main shutoff to each fixture, with water restored at the end of each working day where possible.
The new system is pressure tested and inspected before walls close, then fixtures are reconnected and checked.
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Local Tips
If your Paseos home has a recirculation pump and hot water upstairs is slow, have the pump checked before assuming a pipe or fixture problem. Pumps installed in the 2000s are at or near end of life and often fail without an obvious sign.
Schedule your annual irrigation backflow test before the spring watering season. If the assembly fails and needs a part, you have time to repair and retest without delaying irrigation startup or running out of compliance with the water district's program.
Before any remodel plumbing that changes an exterior wall, side yard, or roofline, contact both the Summerlin master association and your village sub-association. Association design review and a City of Las Vegas building permit are separate processes and both may apply.
If you notice a warm spot on a ground-floor tile or a water bill that has risen without explanation, call for leak detection before opening the slab. Electronic detection can locate the source and confirm whether it is under the slab or coming from an upstairs fixture or connector.
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The hall bath faucet leaked at the base and stained the vanity. Cartridge, supply stops, and a new escutcheon, not a full remodel. We were in Rancho Bel Air, Las Vegas. The wood dried and we kept the stone top we liked.
Daria H.
Rancho Bel Air, Las Vegas
Google review, September 2026
Needed a sink installed for a shop and they did an awesome job. Will come back for more plumbing needs. Thank you.
Amelework Eyasu
Las Vegas
Google review, July 2025
Matt came by to assess whether an access panel could be cut into a jetted tub as recommended by a home warranty companys plumber. Matt took a look at the situation and recommended putting in Delta cartridges and doing a good clean. I about fell out over the cost of cartridge replacement; however the faucet hasnt leaked since. Thank you, Matt!!
Lisa Denson
Las Vegas
Google review, June 2025
The Paseos is in the City of Las Vegas, ZIP 89138, so permitted work generally goes through the City of Las Vegas building department. Because Summerlin spans both the city and unincorporated Clark County and the boundary does not follow village names, we confirm the jurisdiction for your address before any permitted job.
Usually not. Homes here were plumbed in copper or PEX, with no galvanized, cast iron or polybutylene. The work at this age is mostly equipment - water heaters, expansion tanks, pressure regulators, recirculation pumps and original connectors - rather than the pipe itself.
Tank water heater installation typically runs $800 to $1,500 in the Las Vegas Valley, and tankless water heater installation $1,500 to $3,500. These are typical ranges, not a quote. Active Plumbing gives a written price before work starts.
Many homes in The Paseos were built with a stubbed softener loop in the garage that was never connected. It gives a straightforward place to install a softener or other treatment system, which helps water heaters and fixtures cope with water at about 280 parts per million.
It can be, as long as you plan for upkeep. In water this hard a tankless heater needs descaling on a regular interval, or performance drops. An exterior unit can also need Summerlin design review, so check with your association before mounting one on an outside wall.
Active Plumbing is open 24/7, and technicians arrive in 30 to 60 minutes anywhere in the valley, including The Paseos and western Summerlin.
In a home of this age with 16-grain water, the most common cause is scale fouling the mixing valve cartridge rather than a supply line issue. The narrow passages inside the cartridge collect calcium deposits over twenty years and lose the ability to hold a steady temperature. Replacing or cleaning the cartridge usually resolves it. A plumber should also check incoming pressure and the aerator on the same visit.
Interior work such as moving a drain, relocating a supply line, or replacing a shower valve does not require Summerlin design review approval. Anything that changes what is visible on the exterior, including where a tankless unit mounts or where a treatment system sits on a side yard, can require approval from the master association and your village sub-association before installation. Confirm the scope with your association before scheduling exterior equipment placement.
It is possible, but new construction and ADU plumbing here involves confirming that the existing sewer lateral and water service can carry the added load, pulling permits through the City of Las Vegas building department, and planning for caliche in the trench between the main house and the new unit. New construction plumbing typically runs $8,000 to $20,000 in the Las Vegas Valley, and the underground run length and soil conditions affect where a specific job falls in that range.
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